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Holiday greetings from @DANUBIUSRI 🎄 ☃️ 🌊

As the year comes to a close, we would like to extend our warmest wishes from everyone involved with DANUBIUS-RI.

This year we completed our mission to become an #ERIC - a great achievement and an incredible journey, but we're only getting started...

📣 The final DANUBIUS-IP Newsletter is out now, featuring all about our big ERIC announcement 🥳, with news of various 'real-world' services coming online to provide the very best River-Sea System expertise in Europe! ❤️ 🌊

We are thrilled to announce the European Commission has granted the legal status of European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) to DANUBIUS-RI, the International Centre for Advanced Studies on River-Sea Systems. Following acceptance on the ESFRI roadmap in 2016, this new status solidifies DANUBIUS-RI’s position to provide the inter-disciplinary scientific expertise and facilities to sustainably manage and protect River-Sea Systems in Europe and beyond.

Great to have Francesca De Pascalis of @CnrIsmar present @DANUBIUSRI in the @ITINERIS_RI Booth at the #GEOGlobalForum in Rome 🇮🇹 this week, showcasing the significant contributions of @ESFRI_eu Environmental Research Infrastructures to the GEO community.

As part of the implementation strategy of the DANUBIUS-RI Science and Innovation agenda, the Hydro Nation Chair’s David Millar and Deryck Irving, from the University of Stirling (USTIR) ran a series of innovation in action workshops to help our supersites identify critical problems and build solutions to solve them. This work is key to co-developing a roadmap to support the translation of research outputs into innovation opportunities.

We’ve just wrapped up the DANUBIUS-RI  dedicated session "Restoring river-coast dynamics" at Coastal Dynamics 2025 in Aveiro, Portugal. The session focused on the scientific agenda of DANUBIUS-RI and brought together a strong group of presenters, including both potential users and researchers applying DANUBIUS-RI concepts in their work.

In recent months, significant efforts have been made to identify the mutual requirements between DANUBIUS-RI and relevant EU initiatives. This collaboration aims to reduce fragmentation in the research ecosystem, avoid duplication of efforts, and better coordinate the development and use of research facilities.

We are excited to share that our Italian “Po delta & North Adriatic lagoons” Supersite in Italy is working with Veritas S.p.A., a leading public multi-utility company in the Veneto region, to investigate the saltwater wedge phenomenon in the Livenza River estuary. This work will be critical in ensuring an equitable freshwater supply for the region.

DANUBIUS-RI colleagues from Odessa State Environmental University have published a new paper in Geo-Eco-Marina (Dec 14, 2024) on the potential of developing research infrastructures in Ukraine.

We are excited to share a new collaborative project with DANUBIUS-RI partners from Czechia and Austria which examines methane (CH4) release from streams, marking a new area for River-Sea-System research.

We are really excited to share the sixth episode of Kunsht's podcast series called 'The Wave is Coming' featuring Professor Andrew Tyler from University of Stirling, talking about sustainable water management.

This week the DANUBIUS-IP team are in Thames Estuary Supersite in London - it's one of the largest in the UK, a major shipping route and a critical water supply for the city.

We are thrilled to report that January 2025 sees the start of the construction of the DANUBIUS-RI Hub and Danube Delta Supersite, under the project DANUBIUS-RO. The centre will be built in Murighiol and will be the first international consortium of its kind, based in Romania.

Our goal is to support communities with the information and knowledge needed to combat climate change and the unsustainable use of river-sea systems. Find out how! 👇

We are delighted to report that Vladimir Žlábek of South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses (CENAKVA) presented DANUBIUS-RI to the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of Vietnam, as a member of the International advisory board for the management and restoration of the natural environment (ICEPORM). These new connections highlight DANUBIUS-RI potential to offer services and education on a global scale.